To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

War is the business of barbarians.